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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0157 R3-239 to R3-240

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) N00002251 1830? 1881-04 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, carpenter. Kentucky native. Son of Jeremiah Edrington and Melinda Lowell Edrington. Married to Mary E. Edrington. Carpenter in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1850. Resident of Jefferson County in 1860. Convicted of the murder of Mary E. Edrington in the Jefferson Circuit Court on January 20, 1863. Sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment in the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort.

Relationships Economic: [unknown] Ewin (Louisville, Kentucky, physician) Economic: W. Talbot Owen (Louisville, Kentucky, physician) Familial: Mary E. Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: Thomas Jefferson (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, produce dealer and merchant) Social: Isaac Connoley (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, shoemaker) Social: Madison "Matt" Pyles (Louisville, Kentucky physician) Social: Fred Van Seggern (Jefferson County clerk) Social: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Social: William F. Bowen (Louisville, Kentucky, printer) Social: L. Cassella (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, fruit store proprietor) Social: Robert Chappell Holland (Louisville, Kentucky, physician) Social: Henry Dennis (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John J. Tigert (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, pump maker) Social: John Holbern (Jefferson County machinist) Social: Edward N. Kirwan (Jefferson County resident) Social: William Talbot Owen (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician) Social: James C. Gill (Jefferson County, Kentucky, coroner) Social: Henry G. Van Seggern (Jefferson County, Kentucky, carpenter) Familial: Malinda Lawell Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, seamstress) Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary Social: W. Talbot Owen (Louisville, Kentucky, physician)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 162B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 532B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 117. "Police Court," Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 10 Jan 1860, p. 1. "Inquest No. 62," Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), 30 Dec 1862, p. 3. "Jefferson Circuit Court- Criminal Term," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 21 Jan 1863, p. 3. Mary E. Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00008485 1862-12-27 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Married to Thomas Edrington.

Relationships Familial: Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) Legal: Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) Social: W. Talbot Owen (Louisville, Kentucky, physician)

KYR-0001-004-0160. KYR-0001-029-0618. Malinda Lawell Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, seamstress) N00011637 1812? 1876-12-01 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, seamstress. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Daughter of Peter Lawell and Jemima Coons Lawell. Married to Jeremiah Edrington. Mother of Thomas Edrington, William Edrington, and Ella Edrington. Seamstress in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Seamstress in Louisville in 1861. Resident of Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Social: Peter Zanone (Jefferson County confectioner) Familial: Mary E. Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: W. Talbot Owen (Louisville, Kentucky, physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 599. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 532B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 202. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 80. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 285. KYR-0001-029-0618. W. Talbot Owen (Louisville, Kentucky, physician) N00002248 1829-11-03 1892-01-17 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, physician. Claiborne County, Mississippi, native. Son of James Harvey Owen. Married to Sarah E. Hoagland Owen in Carroll County, Kentucky, on November 30, 1855. Father of Carrie Owen. Graduate of the University of Louisville in Louisville in 1844. Graduate of the University of Louisville Medical School in Louisville in 1849. Physician in Claiborne County, Mississippi, in 1850. Physician in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1858 through 1865. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Employed Eliza Atchison and Mary Hansie as servants in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Crawford Hart Barkley (Jefferson County, Kentucky, collector, pension agent, and notary public)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Claiborne County, Port Gibson, p. 106B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 667. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 262B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 5, p. 84. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 9940, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 58. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994030, Jefferson County Marriages. Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 134. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 190. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 470. William B. Atkinson, The Physicians and Surgeons of he United States, (Philadelphia: Charles Robson, 1878), p. 354-355. "Dr. William Talbot Owen (1829-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 158203857, accessed November 9, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158203857. Crawford Hart Barkley (Jefferson County, Kentucky, collector, pension agent, and notary public) N00018831 1821-08-19 1885-12-12 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, collector, pension agent, and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of James Chambers Barkely and Rebecca Hart Barkley. Married to Elizabeth Best Barkley. Father of R. B. Barkley, Mary Barkley, and Elizabeth Barkley. Married to Catherine Frances Reddish Barkley in Franklin County, Kentucky, on January 2, 1856. Father of Frances Barkley, John C. Barkley, Joseph F. Barkley, James Hickman Barkley, and George Marshall Barkley. Collector in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Pension agent in Louisville, Jefferson County in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 133A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 1, p. 24-5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, La Grange, p. 42B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994043, Franklin County Marriages. R. Burnham Moffat, The Barclays of New York: Who They Are and Who They Are Not, and Some Other Barclays, (New York: Robert Grier Cooke, Publisher, 1904), pp. 302, 310-11. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Kentucky State Penitentiary O00000266 1798 1884 Categories: Organizations

State prison of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort, Kentucky. Operated from 1798 to 1884. Keeper(s): Jeremiah W. South (1859-1863) and Harry I. Todd (1863-1871).

Relationships Economic: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Legal: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) Economic: Ephraim Whitesides (Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary) Legal: Charles Hawkins (Frankfort, Kentucky) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: Angelo Devoto (Louisville, Kentucky, confectionery shop owner) Legal: James Duddleson (stub, mercer or boyle county) Legal: James Savage (Wayne County farmer and penitentiary inmate) Legal: James Johnson (Campbell County, Kentucky, prisoner) Economic: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Economic: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: William J. Tice (Steele) (Jefferson Co, Frankfort, and Covington, KY) Legal: Felix McDermot (Kenton County laborer and prisoner for grand larceny) Legal: David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) Legal: Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) Legal: Francis Pace (Harlan County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Birmingham (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: Daniel Bush (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker) Legal: Charles T. Sullivan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident and inmate) Political: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Political: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Political: John T. Hockensmith (Franklin County, KY, prison guard) Political: Luther S. Prentiss (Franklin County, KY, miller) Political: Robert W. Willhoit (Franklin County, Kentucky, petitioner ) Political: R. K. Taylor (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: James Gallahue (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: Thomas J. Frazier (Breathitt County, Kentucky, postmaster, politician, judge, and Register of the Land Office) Political: L. Tobias (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Wesley [Unknown] (Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Legal: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: William Duerbeck (Ohio River boat steward.) Legal: John Smith (Mont Wilson) (Frankfort, Kentucky, inmate.) Legal: Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.) Legal: Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary) Legal: John J. Dyer, Jr. (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Daniel W. Clark (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Stephen W. Duval (McLean County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.)

Calvin Fairbank, Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He “Fought the Good Fight” to Prepare “The Way” (Chicago: R. R. McCabe & Co., 1890), 54-56; 104-117; 139-46. J. W. South. “Report of the Keeper and Lessee of the Kentucky Penitentiary to the General Assembly, September 13, 1861,” Legislative Document Series, No. 7 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 3-13. Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880, Legislative Document No. 18 (Frankfort: E. H. Porter, 1880), 78. William C. Sneed, A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary from its Origin, in 1798, to March 1, 1860 (Frankfort: Senate of Kentucky, 1860), 553. Louisville Journal O001002 1830 1868 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper. Owners(s): A. J. Buxton and George W. Weissinger. Editor(s): George D. Prentice.

Betty Carolyn Congleton, "Louisville Journal" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 582-83. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-01-29 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Louisville January 29th 1863.

Thos Edrington just sentenced to confinement in the state Penitentiary for a term of 3 years & 9 months, was under my medical treatment, several times within the last 12 months.

I saw him one week before the notice of the shooting of his wife was published in the daily paper here. He had at that time discharged his pistol, the ball passing through the ceiling. I learned from his wife and Mother that it was a random shot, -- unexpected: that he was under the influence of a deep potation of alcoholic spirits, and I prescribed medicine for Mania a potu. He was well as ordinary the succeeding day.

One year ago, I was called to see sd Edrington, and found him a wreck, both of ^his^ mental and physical systems. I considered him almost if not entirely imbecile -- in a condition of passive stolidity? to all ordinary events, which was highly marked to my mind in view of my acquaintance with him from boyhood up, as this contrasted. His mental status is no better, if as good, now.

It is evident that he should be kept in restraint, and pardoned only with the view of immediate control of his movements.

W. T. Owen M. D.

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City of Louisville Jefferson County Kentucky Sct

Be it Known That on this 29th day of January A D 1863 before me the undersigned A Notary Public in and for said City and County personally appeared Doctor W. T. Owen of Said City well Known to me and he did Sign and in due form of law make oath to the the foregoing affidavit as containing his opinion as a Doctor of Medicine in the case therein referred to And I certify that Said Doctor W. T. Owen is a practising physician and Surgeon in and of Said city, of more than ten years standing and that he has good reputation for professional skill and personal integrity.

Witness my name and Notarial Seal on this 29th day of January A D 1863 Crawford H, Barkley Notary Public Jeff. Co, Ky,